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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I'm still stunned the media, even the conservative media, doesn't understand all this does is help Trump. Cannot believe they haven't figured out to ignore him, but he's making the media money so they don't care. And I mean the first name is Glenn Beck. Way to immediately undermine yourself.
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Not that I feel Beck is credible, but the names of the authors are listed alphabetically.
Trump is giving voice to anger, and that's the only thing he's doing. There is a large proportion of Americans who are angry about a number of things. That the America they felt they were promised has not materialized, that their wages have been stagnant for years, that they 'have' to be politically correct. That Earth Day is a thing, and incandescent bulbs are gone.
Mainly it's the first thing though. The 'American Dream' of work hard and you'll be rewarded with prosperity has failed. There are a whole slew of reasons for this and both Liberal and Conservative solutions have been offered.
That anger has become directed at Government. Palin was the first appearance of it, her "pitbull with lipstick" thing resonated with an anger which hadn't simmered to the surface yet.
The Tea Party was the second manifestation. 'Elect us and we'll stop Obama' they promised. Then they didn't (as far as the average voter is concerned) the GOP is the same as the Dems, is the rallying cry of the 'base.'
And now along comes Trump. He's not a conservative, has no policy positions really, and does not present anything substantive, ever. But he is MAD. And people identify with that, the feeling of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." So he's got them, they connect emotionally, then they see him get attacked, and, since they identify with Trump, they are attacked.
Now cognitive bias kicks in, a bunker mentality develops and Trump supporters are now personally emotionally invested in his success, they can't desert him because that might mean they have to examine their own thinking or biases. He's got them, they're locked in.
But that's all he's got. He has that section of the electorate which have already emotionally committed to him and no one else. That's a road-map to a bunch of early primary wins, a contested convention, and a compromise, establishment candidate coming out of the convention.